The proposed TV joint venture has stressed its openness since it was first mooted by the BBC but, just eight before the Office of Fair Trading is due to rule on its competition credentials, Project Canvas appears to have raised the drawbridg By Robert Andrews

With the BBC Trust's interim verdict on the BBC's Project Canvas open IPTV proposal due on Monday, we asked Andrew Burke, former chief executive of BT Entertainment, what Canvas might do for the UK IPTV ecology.